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Learning English in 2025 􀂶 with Luke’s English Podcast  \nHappy New Year! 􀂢  \nHello! Happy New Year. This is my first episode of 2025. Let’s hope this is is going to be a good year, a productive year, a positive year and a generally fantastic year for you and your English. Let’s start 2025 on a positive note by putting our best foot forward.  \nIn this new year period what I usually do on my podcast is record an episode like this to welcome new listeners who might have recently discovered the show (hello!), to welcome back old listenders (hello again!), to re-establish the main aims of this podcast, and to talk about how this podcast can help you with your English.  \nI’m going to talk about the importance of listening in your learning of English, how podcasts can help with that, and specifically how you can use my podcast to improve your English in various ways over the next 12 months and beyond.  \nI will also share some comments and testimonials from people who listened to this podcast in 2024 and whose English definitely improved as a result. Lots of listeners have written to me over the last few weeks and described their experiences of improving their English with this podcast and I would like to share their experiences and tips with you.  \nSo, this is episode 916. Learning English in 2025 with Luke’s English Podcast.  \nI’m Luke Thompson and this is my podcast for learners of English around the world. Just in case you are new to the show, let me introduce myself so you know who you are listening to and learning English with.  \nLet me introduce myself  \nI’m Luke (not Luck, not Look, not Luke’s, not Luca, not LucasLuke, like Luke Skywalker)  \nI’m from England in the UK, so I speak British English. I come from both West London and the West Midlands (if that is possiblewhich it is) -two parts of England. I spent time in both places growing up.  \nI lived in Ealing in West London until the age of 9 and then my family moved to a small village in the middle of nowhere, in the countryside near Birmingham in the centre of England, not far from Stratford Upon Avon where Shakespeare was born, and also not far from Warwick which has one of the country’s most impressive medieval castles. You might have been there.  \nThose are the two places I am from-West London and the West Midlands. So I am both a city boy and a country boy.  \nMy house ☝  \nIn terms of my accent, I don’t have a particularly strong regional British accent. 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